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I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies...

I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies…
– Neil Gaiman

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  2. Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own. – Neil Gaiman
  3. The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. – Peter De Vries
  4. I talk to children like adults and to adults like children. – Bryant McGill
  5. Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive. – Tim Relf
  6. Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths – Neil Gaiman
  7. Adults follow paths. Children explore. – Neil Gaiman
  8. She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them. – Rebecca West
  9. We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable. – Neil Gaiman
  10. I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn’t we embrace such simple joys? – John Shors
  11. She wondered how she would feel to be a married woman. It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices. – Neil Gaiman
  12. Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare. – Neil Gaiman
  13. A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper. – Boris Fishman
  14. The moment you are wrapped up in the world, you become blind to the things wrapped in the mysteries. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  15. You’re one tough egg to crack. You know that? You’re like a Kinder egg wrapped inside a mystery wrapped inside an enigma. – Cassia Leo
  16. If you’re adult enough to have sex, you’re adult enough to talk about your feelings. – Carter Quinn
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  18. Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics. – Stephen King
  19. It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale – they are well-equipped to deal with these – Neil Gaiman
  20. If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won’t need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away. – Neil Gaiman
  21. You are almost never cool to your children. – Neil Gaiman
  22. Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored. – Neil Gaiman
  23. Really, he thought, if you couldn’t trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? – Neil Gaiman
  24. She looked at the girl in the mirror and the girl in the mirror looked back at her. I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave. – Neil Gaiman
  25. I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave. – Neil Gaiman
  26. Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds. – Neil Gaiman
  27. Bodies lay in the sun. Bodies stood in the sun. – NJ Hallard
  28. Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth. – Evan DG Fraser
  29. We do not have bodies-”we are bodies! What could possibly be wrong with that form of consciousness? It is all energy anyways. – Christopher Zzenn Loren
  30. stress is not stress until we experience it in our bodies and have a physiological reaction in our bodies. – Linda Lantieri
  31. stress is not stress until we experience it in our bodies and have a physiological reaction in our bodies. – Linda Lantieri
  32. stress is not stress until we experience it in our bodies and have a physiological reaction in our bodies. – Linda Lantieri
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  34. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all. – Neil Gaiman
  35. For as soon as something becomes impossible it slipslides out of belief entirely, whether it’s true or not. – Neil Gaiman
  36. Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments. – Neil Gaiman
  37. He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again. – Teodor Flonta
  38. It’s only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. – Maurice Sendak
  39. If children instead of adults would have contolled the world, then the world would have become a better place. – Abrar Ahmed chowdhury
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